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Howl's Moving Castle (the book) was by London-born Diana Wynne Jones. The film based on the book was a Studio Ghibli production, with screenplay by Hayao Miyazaki.
I do this on my Asterisk system by having an answering machine on my POTS line give out an 0870 (expensive to call) number that forwards to my VoIP phone number. My friends and family have the real number (so don't pay the 0870 call rate). The ringer is switched off (as is the speaker) on my answerphone so I don't hear it ring, it doesn't disturb me and the call spammers don't generally like to call 0870 numbers. It's a win-win.:)
Also, whocallsme.com is a very useful site in looking up the caller IDs of call spammers, and isn't restricted to USA or UK.
Don't forget the video capture card, and VHS, V2000 and Betamax video machines, in both PAL and NTSC format. (Forget the ones that can play out NTSC tapes on PAL systems, they screw with the picture due to the line count and frame rate.)
The British comedians Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett used to do this sort of thing all the time back in the 1970s and 1980s in their show The Two Ronnies.
Q. What happens if a computer's hard drive is removed?
A. The Computrace Agent resides on a computer's hard drive so if the drive is removed and installed on another computer, the Agent will initiate contact with the Monitoring Center at its next scheduled call. It will then report its new location. The original computer will no longer be protected.
If your scenario was correct then it would reinstall the trace software on the new hard disc.
That's something I like about my bog-standard cheapie MP3 player. It has no memory of its own, but instead plays from (standard) SD cards. Indeed, the card I've got in it at the moment is a 2GB microSD, using the adaptor that came with it. So if I were to get something in this microSD format I could indeed be listening to it as I walk out the shop. No need even to fart around with a USB adaptor.
also, positioning does not matter much when playing music - think - how many times were you able to sit in the middle of a symphony orchestra, [...], and listen to music ? Many times. Frequently. I'm in one.
I drive a diesel Renault Scenic. Not the most powerful beast on the planet but on long runs I can exceed 70mpg. Then again, currently paying about £1.22/litre it's still expensive to run.
I'll second this. While I've found Ekiga in Linux to be reliable, friends who have used the Windows version (in WinXP) have suddenly found themselves transmitting high-pitched loud squeaks.
I was about to junk an old 486DX4-100, when one of my friends asked for help retrieving data from an old 200MB hard disc. (This thing didn't do PIO Mode 4, let alone any DMA variant.) None of my USB attachments would work with it and I really didn't want to pull my desktop box apart as my IDE channels were full. Thus, the only thing I had which would be fairly happy with a disc this old was the aforementioned 486 running a rather old Linux distro.
I managed to get every file off that disc apart from a few temporary files. I'm not sure my Athlon XP200+ box would have coped with a disc that old.
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There were reasons they moved their UK operations from Staines (Middlesex).
MULTICS.
Of course.
Out of curiosity, which player is this?
Maxtor is part of Seagate, not WD.
Howl's Moving Castle (the book) was by London-born Diana Wynne Jones. The film based on the book was a Studio Ghibli production, with screenplay by Hayao Miyazaki.
If you're in the UK, Second Number is worth looking at. While some numbers are chargeable, many are free.
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I do this on my Asterisk system by having an answering machine on my POTS line give out an 0870 (expensive to call) number that forwards to my VoIP phone number. My friends and family have the real number (so don't pay the 0870 call rate). The ringer is switched off (as is the speaker) on my answerphone so I don't hear it ring, it doesn't disturb me and the call spammers don't generally like to call 0870 numbers. It's a win-win. :)
Also, whocallsme.com is a very useful site in looking up the caller IDs of call spammers, and isn't restricted to USA or UK.
Trust me to forget to explain why. Before I get modded offtopic I should point out this is all for the Danmere Backer.
Don't forget the video capture card, and VHS, V2000 and Betamax video machines, in both PAL and NTSC format. (Forget the ones that can play out NTSC tapes on PAL systems, they screw with the picture due to the line count and frame rate.)
The British comedians Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett used to do this sort of thing all the time back in the 1970s and 1980s in their show The Two Ronnies.
It was outsourced to one of two British companies, Systems Designers or SciCon (who bought SD).
Then along came EDS and bought SciCon.
Yes, I'd noticed that too, in both the store near where I live and the one where I work. I wondered what was happening.
And, likewise unfortunately I can't remember what the old ones were.
Yes - TFA says as much.
Probably not actually. From TFA:
Q. What happens if a computer's hard drive is removed?
A. The Computrace Agent resides on a computer's hard drive so if the drive is removed and installed on another computer, the Agent will initiate contact with the Monitoring Center at its next scheduled call. It will then report its new location. The original computer will no longer be protected.
If your scenario was correct then it would reinstall the trace software on the new hard disc.
Add to the developer sites a line like:
The following applications have not been removed from the AppStore: [item] [item] [item] .... ...and just delete when required.
I know ^_^ Perhaps my sense of humour was a bit too deadpan there...
That's hardly surprising. Most married people have the paperwork to prove it.
That's something I like about my bog-standard cheapie MP3 player. It has no memory of its own, but instead plays from (standard) SD cards. Indeed, the card I've got in it at the moment is a 2GB microSD, using the adaptor that came with it. So if I were to get something in this microSD format I could indeed be listening to it as I walk out the shop. No need even to fart around with a USB adaptor.
also, positioning does not matter much when playing music - think - how many times were you able to sit in the middle of a symphony orchestra, [...], and listen to music ?
Many times. Frequently. I'm in one.
I drive a diesel Renault Scenic. Not the most powerful beast on the planet but on long runs I can exceed 70mpg. Then again, currently paying about £1.22/litre it's still expensive to run.
I'll second this. While I've found Ekiga in Linux to be reliable, friends who have used the Windows version (in WinXP) have suddenly found themselves transmitting high-pitched loud squeaks.
It's probably hidden in a wall cavity somewhere, a bit like that Netware server in the news a few years back.
Sure it can. That's how the BBC iplayer can show the BBC News channel.
(Due to the way BBC content is funded, the video stream will only work in the UK.)
You must be new here. This is Slashdot.
I was about to junk an old 486DX4-100, when one of my friends asked for help retrieving data from an old 200MB hard disc. (This thing didn't do PIO Mode 4, let alone any DMA variant.) None of my USB attachments would work with it and I really didn't want to pull my desktop box apart as my IDE channels were full. Thus, the only thing I had which would be fairly happy with a disc this old was the aforementioned 486 running a rather old Linux distro.
I managed to get every file off that disc apart from a few temporary files. I'm not sure my Athlon XP200+ box would have coped with a disc that old.